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Such a definition has the advantage that it is easier to include all species with a certain morphology. Plesiosauria was in 2010 by Hillary Ketchum and Roger Benson defined as such a stem-based taxon: "all taxa more closely related to Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus and Pliosaurus brachydeirus than to Augustasaurus hagdorni".
It appears to be the most common species of plesiosaur in the Lias Group of England. [24] Plesiosaurus is best represented from the "upper part of the Blue Lias , the 'Shales with Beef,' and the lower Black Ven Marls" the latter of which form part of the Charmouth Mudstone ; using the Lias Group ammonite fossil zones, these rocks date to the ...
Cryptoclididae is a family of medium-sized plesiosaurs that existed from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous. They had long necks, broad and short skulls and densely packed teeth. They fed on small soft-bodied preys such as small fish and crustaceans.
This list of plesiosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Plesiosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms.The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomen dubium), or were not formally published (nomen nudum), as well as junior synonyms of more established names, and genera that ...
Pravoslavlev recognized another species from New Zealand, E. hoodii, named by Owen in 1870 as Plesiosaurus hoodii based on a neck vertebra. [62] Welles recognized it as a nomen dubium in 1962; [33] Joan Wiffen and William Moisley concurred in a 1986 review of New Zealand plesiosaurs. [63] In 1949 Welles named a new species of Elasmosaurus, E ...
Polycotylidae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous, a sister group to Leptocleididae.They are known as false pliosaurs. Polycotylids first appeared during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous, before becoming abundant and widespread during the early Late Cretaceous.
The Plesiosauridae are a monophyletic family of plesiosaurs named by John Edward Gray in 1825. [1] [2] References paleontology portal; This page was last edited on 1 ...
Terminonatator (meaning "last swimmer") is a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada.It is known from a skull and partial skeleton from a young adult, found in the Campanian-age Bearpaw Formation near Notukeu Creek in Ponteix.